Tile linoleum



June 2, 1931. A. c. McKlssocK TILE LINoLEUM Filed June 3. 1929 Patented June 2, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE ALEXANDER CATHIE FICKISSOCK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO LINOLEUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMTED, GF LONDON, ENGLAND TILE LINOLE'UM Application filed .Tune 3, 1929, Serial No. 367,927, and in Great Britain April 19, 1929.

the backing, cutting it into pieces to :torm patterned tesseree or tiles, laying them on to a backing together with plain, marbled,

Vgrained or other suitable tiles or tesserae cut from sheets in the usual manner, and consolidating the Whole by pressure or in any other suitable manner.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying diagrammatic views in which Figure 1 shows a patterned linoleum A being stripped from its backing B. The linoleum A after being stripped is cut into pieces to orm tesser or tiles C and placed as shown in Figure 2, on to a backing D together With plain, marbled, grained or other suitable tiles E cut from sheets in the usual manner. The enriched tile pattern linoleum shown in Figure 2 is then consolidated in the usual manner by pressure or in any other suitable manner.

The patterned linoleum shown in Figure 1 may be made in any suitable manner, for example, by depositing, on a backing, granulated material of different colours in their proper place to form the desired pattern, and consolidating the product by pressure, or by printing the desired pattern on linoleum material carried by a backing.

W'hat I claim is The method of producing an enriched tile pattern linoleum which consists in stripping Y a patterned linoleum from its backing, cutting the stripped linoleum into tesserae each containing a pattern, cutting tesserae to be enriched by the iirst mentioned tesseree from other linoleum, and in combining the first and second tesserae in substantially checkered relation on a backing and into the final product.

ALEXANDER cATHrn MCKissocK. 

